Module:RandomText

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-- Module:RandomText
local p = {}

-- Function to randomly select one of the provided arguments
function p.choose(frame)
    -- Get all the arguments passed to the template
    local args = frame.args

    -- Collect all non-nil, non-empty arguments
    local options = {}
    for _, value in ipairs(args) do
        if value and value ~= "" then
            table.insert(options, value)
        end
    end

    -- If there are no valid arguments, return empty
    if #options == 0 then
        return ""
    end

    -- Randomly choose one of the options
    math.randomseed(os.time()) -- Seed the random number generator
    local choice = math.random(1, #options)

    return options[choice]
end

return p